Friday, January 06, 2006

We pass each other on the stairs....

I recieved a book today I had ordered earlier about Michael Hutchence (the late lead singer for INXS). After Michael died, INXS died in my eyes, too. No crappy reality show can replace him. I saw INXS live several times and Michael always stole the show. The sensuality, control of the crowd, ambiguous sexuality, the lust and the stage command. I first became aware of the band when they put out the single "The One Thing" here in the US and became a HUGE fan. I have since realized that not ONE day has gone by without me listening to at least one INXS song or one of the songs on Michael's solo album. I'll never forget him or the joyful gifts he brought to me and to the rest of the world. A song that I feel sums a lot of it up is included below. I originally heard it on the Best Of INXS CD several years back...and it has choked me up ever since. Michael...wherever you are, we loved and we still do love you. And thank you, Michael...for making very difficult times in my life tolerable. And bringing me such unexpected joy. You are certainly missed.

The Stairs

Written by A. Farriss/Michael Hutchence

In a room above a busy streetThe echoes of a lifeThe fragments and the accidentsSeparated by incidentsListened to by the wallsWe share the same spacesRepeated in the corridorsPerforming the same movements

Storey to storeyBuilding to buildingStreet to streetWe pass each other on the stairs

Storey to storeyBuilding to buildingStreet to streetWe pass each other on the stairs

Listened to by the wallsWe share the same spacesRepeated in the corridorsPerforming the same movements

The nature of your tragedyIs chained around your neckDo you lead or are you ledAre you sure that you don’t care

There are reasons here to give your lifeAnd follow in your wayThe passion lives to keep your faithThough all are different all are great

Climbing as we fallWe dare to hold on to our fateAnd steal away our destinyTo catch ourselves with quiet grace

Storey to storeyBuilding to buildingStreet to streetWe pass each other on the stairs

Listened to by the wallsWe share the same spacesRepeated in the corridorsPerforming the same movements

Storey to storeyBuilding to buildingStreet to streetWe pass each other on the stairs

2 Comments:

Hehe.....I'm a HUGE INXS fan, gurl. I thought everyone knew that!! A groupie? I would have been a Michael Hutchence groupie. You know....I never cried to "Never Tear Us Apart" until after he died. Now I get tears in my eyes. Some people wonder about my devotion to him and to the band. The best way I know how to explain it to them is to use whatever band they are into at the time. Ask them how they feel about the songs, the musicians, the variety of the music and things like that. When I get done listening (tolerating the mindless drivel), I go on my tirade of INXS and Michael Hutchence. I'll go into it at a new post later today....I have to explain to these other fans(?) what's up with the eye as you already know and then go into my mind to find the words about how I became such a devoted person to INXS and Michael Hutchence. *mwah*